Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-03-26
GENERAL NEWS

Island.
.Alad of 16 years, employed as a messen
ger by a Wall street firm, was sent to banh
With some cash and $29, $50 in checks. Ht
Joined some tramps in Brooklyn, and wher
the currency was spent they tore up the
checks. The entire party is in arrest.
The French chamber of deputies has ap
proved the bill imposing duty of francs
Per hlos on wheat reports.S
The 800 men who struck for 10 per cent
advance in pay at the American wire works
Cleveland, Ohio, were paid off and dis
charged.
Lonis Bieral, who attempted to kill &. s
Beattie, surveyor of the port of New York
last October, has been sentenced to five
years in state prison.
The government bes commenced its sui
against the Bell telephone company in thu
United States court.
Nearly nineIhundredfruit cars, aweitinf
loads of oranges, are lying at the chief ship
ping points in southern California.
The assassin of Adam Carpenter, at Hus
tonville, Kentucky, is believed to be his SOL
Wallace, youth of IS, who made terrible
threats year ago.
About thirty thousand acres of land neal
La Grange, Kentucky, has been leased by 6
party of Cincinnatians, who expect to de-
velop natural gas in large volume.
The investig ating committee of the Mis-
souri, legislature have submitted q report
rejecting on their state auditor, John Walk
or. The coU mittee have found that he was
intere sted in convict labor contract while
occupying tho position of penitentiary in
spector.
At Howell. Michigan, the hardware store
of r. N. Monroe was exploded and set on
fire. The flames extended to an entire row
of business houses, causing loes of $780,
600. Mr.. Monroe is leader in the prohibit
ton cause, and claims to have received
warning letters in February that he would
be burned out.
Colonel Ayres, commanding the Second
artillery at Fort Francis barracks, Florida,
has made report to the department con-
corning the Apache prisoners at Fort Marion,
ruary let last was 447. Three children have
been born since that date and four Indians
have died, leaving 446 in oonfinement-sixty-
two men, two huudI ed and six women and
one hundred and hfty-eight children. The
Indians generally have behaved well. About
fifty children are under instruction by the
Brothers of Saint Joseph academy. and have
made good progress. Some kindly disposed
white women have been instructing the men
during the past month with considerable
success in the elements of the English Ian
guage.
Hon. T. 81. Seward, elected department
commander of the Grand Army of the Re-
public at Abilene yesterday, returned this
evening and was accorded magnificent
reception.
The don. Eben F. Pillsbury, ex-member
of congress, died at Melrose, Mass. Sunday
night. He had been in poor health for some
months.
Nathan Fall, travelling salesman, having
been held to bail at Denver for larceny, &C.
oompanied constable to the third floor of
the chamber of commerce, whence he threw
himself over the banister. He fell seventy
feet, and so fractured his skull that the
brain protruded.
The federal council of Switzerland has re-
qnested the banks of issue to keep on hand
large percentage of specie, in order to
guaI against possible panic.
E. A. Randolph, talented and energetic
colored lawyer of Richmond, is ende avoring
to organize the negroes of Virginia for the
advancement of their industrial interests,
political party leads in the Path of progress.
He declares that Cleveland's administration
has put mole real value on citizenship than
all preceding presidents since the war.
The pope has announced the creation of
five cardinals and the appointment of four
teen bishops.
The first fast mail train from New York to |
Kansas City arrived one minute ahead of |
lime.
Citizens of Washington, at q meeting re- |
Gently, subscribed 1896 for the relief of the |
italian earthquake sufferers.
Lieutenant IS. Powell of the signal corps
Just died in Washington from softening of |
the brain.
Mavroyein Bey, the newly accredited Turk |
ish minister to the United States, has been !
formally presented to the president.
Five hundred and fifty talesmen have now |
been examined for the trial of Doodle Alder |
man Cleary, of New York City, and the jury |
d still incomplete.
At meeting of the Northwestern Freight |
held in Chicago, it was agreed
on the part of all the railroads interested,
except the Chicago, Burlington d Northern,
30 fix the rates on wheat and its products
and fax seed in car lots, at Is cents per 100
pounds between st. Paul and Minneapolis
md Chicago.
While two Americans were in saloon on
inc MEXICAN SIDE OF the border, near NOga-
les. Arizona, four Mexican customs officials
uttered, drew their pistols and commenced
iring. There was no one killed, however,
md the Americans escaped on to their ma
i've soil.
The striking section hands on the Fort
Wayne railway in Pennsylvania have been
paid off and discharged, and their places
filed by imported Italians.
Rev. R. M. Donohue, of Charleston, ILL.,,
has been made lieutenant in the French
lrmy for discovering a destructive explosive
en- times more dangerous than nitro-glyc-
crime for use in torpedo warfare, the secret
If which was sold to the French govern
nent.
Saint Patrick day was generally observed
IN New York and Brooklyn and other east
I'm cities.
Ben Butterworth of Ohio has written a
etter to the Toronto Mail on the dispute be-
ween Canada and the United States. in
which he defends his own course in congress
nd, by implication, denounced the retalia-
DRY legislation enacted.